Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat

✍ Scribed by Elżbieta M. Goździak

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 141
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book challenges the rhetoric linking ‘war on terror’ with ‘war on human trafficking’ by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level security concerns. Drawing on research in the United States and in Europe, Goździak shows how human trafficking has replaced migration in public narratives, policy responses, and practice with migrants and analyzes lived experiences of (in)security of trafficked victims, irregular migrants, and asylum seekers. .

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
1 Introduction
Researching Human Trafficking
Writing About Human Trafficking
Considering Security
The Chapters Ahead
References
Part I Understanding Security and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century
2 Human Trafficking: Old Phenomenon, New Meaning(s)
The Old and New Abolitionists
Renewed Interest in Human Trafficking at the United Nations
Focus on Women and Girls
TVPA and the Four Ps: Prevention, Protection, Prosecution, and Partnerships
Expansion of the Concept of Human Trafficking
References
3 Human Trafficking as a Security Threat
The Origins and Meaning of ‘Security’
Human trafficking and terrorism
Human Trafficking and Organized Crime
Securitization of Human Trafficking and Migration
References
Part II Fear of the Other
4 Closing US Refugee Resettlement with the Stroke of a Pen
US Refugee Resettlement Program in a Snapshot
The Chilling Effect of 9/11 on Refugee Admissions
The Faltering US Protection for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Refugee Protection and National Security: Complementary, Not Competing Imperatives
References
5 Fortress Europe
Policing and Fortifying Borders
Closing Refugee Camps
Criminalizing Assistance to Refugees
No to Refugees, Yes to Migrants with Money
A Road to Nowhere: Asylum Seekers at the Brześć-Terespol Border Crossing
Islamophobia Without Muslims
Traffickers or Smugglers? Friends of Foes?
Crimmigration
References
Part III Lived Experiences of (In)Security
6 Drug Mules, Foot Guides, or Victims of Child Trafficking?
Setting the Stage
Escaping Violence to Fall Prey to Violence
Multiple Placements in Care
Legal Outcomes and Long-Term Solutions
Looking Forward
References
7 Young and Male Asylum Seekers: A Security Threat to the European Union?
Representations of ‘Crisis’
Terrorism and Security Threat
Threat to the Christian Identity of Europe
Fear of Small Numbers
References
8 Conclusions: Way Forward
References
Index